jimcarroll says. the term does not cover composed popular music that has been taken over ready made by a community and remains unchanged, for it is the refashioning and recreation of the music by the community, that gives it is folk character.
so if Harry Cox had sung GOD Save the Queen ,unaccompanied and in a traditional style, with vocal embellishments it would be traditonal. No, and Harry wouldnt have thought so, nor would Fred Jordan, Otherwise it would have been collected and recorded, even modern day collectors with more catholic interpretations of traditional music have not done so.